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THE SERIES
Emigration and Adaptation
Every person learns something, sets goals and moves forward in life. Emigration is a special experience. In emigration a person loses everything old (language, culture, native faces, habitual mentality, known rules of behavior and laws, way of life and many other things) and gets instead of all this everything new. At such times, one has to master several skills at once. Every simple everyday action turns out to be a complex task. These trials of the new world are perceived differently by a person in different periods.
Sometimes you feel complete antagonism towards the new place, at other times you are happy and delighted by the changes in it, sometimes you go through a phase of retrospection and reflection on your past life or maybe experience nostalgia. In the series I explore these processes through art in different techniques and media.
This series will be updated with new works. I still have unspoken thoughts about it.
This series will be updated with new works. I still have unspoken thoughts about it.
First steps
Mix media (concrete, glass) sculpture, 35x35 cm
Broken life
Mix media (oil, acrylic, concrete, collage) on canvas, 20x15 cm
Rebirth
Mix media (oil, acrylic, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, sepia, handmade linoleum print, collage) on canvas, 30x30 cm
Imprints of life
Mix media (oil, acrylic, concrete, collage) on canvas, 20x20 cm
Our Fears
Mix media (oil, acrylic) on canvas, 100x100 cm
About Artworks
Sculpture "First steps"
This work is about the complexity of the first steps. Every person learns something, sets goals and moves forward in life. Every new endeavor requires effort, patience, diligence. The first steps in any endeavor are the most difficult. They are so heavy and even painful, as if you are walking on a long road in shoes made of concrete filled with broken glass. But the more experience a person gains in a new endeavor, the easier it becomes on the way to the goal. Emigration multiplies this condition several times. In emigration a person loses everything old (language, culture, native faces, habitual mentality, known rules of behavior and laws, way of life and much more) and gets instead of all this everything new. In such moments, one has to master several skills at once in order to achieve several goals. Each simple everyday action (riding the bus, buying groceries, going to the doctor, etc.) at first turns out to be a difficult task, which, like a small piece of glass, digs into the foot, leaves a mark and makes the path more difficult.
Collage "Rebirth"
This painting is a collage of illustrations with elements of Israel's nature and culture, my sketches, my first word lists for learning the language, and excerpts from Nikolai Gogol's book in Hebrew. It shows my personal journey of assimilation in a new place, from the simplest to the most difficult stages.
In the center of the painting is a sign I created with the help of linocut. It is a hamsa, a palm, a symbol of openness. They say that in a new place a person should "become a child again", learn everything, absorb and study the surrounding world. The five fingers here are in the form of female figures representing the journey of creating a child (waiting, pregnancy, birth, nurturing and letting go). These five symbols also represent the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) that a person must incorporate as a child to understand the new world around them and become part of it.
In the center of the painting is a sign I created with the help of linocut. It is a hamsa, a palm, a symbol of openness. They say that in a new place a person should "become a child again", learn everything, absorb and study the surrounding world. The five fingers here are in the form of female figures representing the journey of creating a child (waiting, pregnancy, birth, nurturing and letting go). These five symbols also represent the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) that a person must incorporate as a child to understand the new world around them and become part of it.
Artwork "Broken Life"
It is my visualization of pain and grief, mourning, tragedy, a state of transgression between the world of the living and the dead. Here light is swallowed up by darkness, all living things die, monochrome instead of the bright colors of life, broken herbarium instead of flowers. It is a broken heart that cannot be made whole again. It is a wreckage that will no longer be whole and forever scarred. Total entropy, a broken life.
If you have felt even a fraction of this, then this artwork has taken place. The purpose of it is a reflection on the fact that only people, only their fanaticism and radicalism can create such pain in this world.
If you have felt even a fraction of this, then this artwork has taken place. The purpose of it is a reflection on the fact that only people, only their fanaticism and radicalism can create such pain in this world.
Painting "Our fears"
The philosophical painting "Our Fears" depicts two hands. One of the hands is wide open and stretches upward in order to live and get the experience of everything that fate has written in its palm. A romantic girl standing on the line of love visualizes gaining love and loss. Personal growth and crises are shown by a brooding girl sitting on the line of mind. A cloud of thoughts and experiences is swarming above her head, and even one heavy thought pierces her like lightning. Passing along the path of life, which inevitably and logically leads to death expressed by a green strong tree rooted right in the cemetery. It is depicted on the lifeline of the hand.
The other hand at the bottom of the painting squeezes tightly the hand that wants to live life to the fullest. This hand symbolizes our fears, prejudices that prevent us from breathing deeply. Fear is a natural defense mechanism of a person, without which we would not have survived. It prevents us from doing foolish things, but sometimes it blocks us from taking an important step. We must control it, but not vice versa.
This painting is a collage of illustrations with elements of Israel's nature and culture, my sketches, my first word lists for learning the language, and excerpts from Nikolai Gogol's book in Hebrew. It shows my personal journey of assimilation in a new place, from the simplest to the most difficult stages.
In the center of the painting is a sign I created with the help of linocut. It is a hamsa, a palm, a symbol of openness. They say that in a new place a person should "become a child again", learn everything, absorb and study the surrounding world. The five fingers here are in the form of female figures representing the journey of creating a child (waiting, pregnancy, birth, nurturing and letting go). These five symbols also represent the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) that a person must incorporate as a child to understand the new world around them and become part of it.
The other hand at the bottom of the painting squeezes tightly the hand that wants to live life to the fullest. This hand symbolizes our fears, prejudices that prevent us from breathing deeply. Fear is a natural defense mechanism of a person, without which we would not have survived. It prevents us from doing foolish things, but sometimes it blocks us from taking an important step. We must control it, but not vice versa.
This painting is a collage of illustrations with elements of Israel's nature and culture, my sketches, my first word lists for learning the language, and excerpts from Nikolai Gogol's book in Hebrew. It shows my personal journey of assimilation in a new place, from the simplest to the most difficult stages.
In the center of the painting is a sign I created with the help of linocut. It is a hamsa, a palm, a symbol of openness. They say that in a new place a person should "become a child again", learn everything, absorb and study the surrounding world. The five fingers here are in the form of female figures representing the journey of creating a child (waiting, pregnancy, birth, nurturing and letting go). These five symbols also represent the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) that a person must incorporate as a child to understand the new world around them and become part of it.
Artwork "Imprints of life"
Each person copes with difficult circumstances in his or her own way. One way to get through a difficult time in life is to go through all the stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. I decided that the painting “Broken Life” (a painting about the pain of tragedy) needed its pairing. There is the moment of tragedy and life after.
The painting “Imprints of life” tells about a difficult time after experiencing grief, about the time after the war. It seems that the world will never be the same, that the pain will never go away, that there is no movement for the better and each new day is just as difficult. There is only a big round hole in the soul with dead herbarium prints on it in the place where emotions once bloomed with beautiful colors.
The painting “Imprints of life” tells about a difficult time after experiencing grief, about the time after the war. It seems that the world will never be the same, that the pain will never go away, that there is no movement for the better and each new day is just as difficult. There is only a big round hole in the soul with dead herbarium prints on it in the place where emotions once bloomed with beautiful colors.